Tag: You Tube

6.41 Minutes of Pure Joy!

December 6, 2012 / / 1 Comment

A bit of a breathless and exited post today, my fingers rattling off the keyboard like maggots with St Vitus Dance. Please do yourselves a big favour and, even if you never ‘do’ You-Tube, go click on the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WWOMFxF6P8

Screen Grab from Sea Change’s Facebook Timeline.

This is a short video film about the use the Sea Change Sailing Trust make of SB Cambria (Reminder also makes as appearance) in their work supporting Youth Training. As well as lots of nice footage of the barge itself, it includes interviews with Richard Tichener and Hilary Halajko plus some of the trainees involved in the sailing trips. There is footage of them loading the token cargo for that cement delivery they did in the Summer and even the RAF helicopter guy being winched back off the deck to his bright yellow helicopter. You also see ‘Stretch’ showing some trainees how to use charts and trainees going aloft (on the safety line), steering and hauling on ropes.

It is geared towards a new Sea Change campaign where they are trying to raise funds to buy their own sailing vessel (barge?) which they can configure permanently for their own purposes.

Nice one Sea Change and the Team there. Good luck with the campaign.

Calendar Received

November 23, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Today I received through the post, my Cambria 2013 Calendar and, now that I have seen it in the flesh, I can confirm that it is a lovely thing to have and to put on the wall. I love the big glossy photo’s (as I said, taken mainly by Mark C in bright sunshine during the races) and also (always a concern for making a calendar useful rather than just pretty) there is plenty of space to write your events per day. Mine is already ‘up there’ and has a number of 2013 events written into it. I am not sure whether there is any more point me hawking this, as they may well be sold out. I have emailed Cathy C to check. I will let you know.

Head marking on Cambria jib; pic by Matt Care

Meanwhile ace rooter-out of bizarre, sailing-related video on You-Tube, David Rye, has come up with a Thanksgiving Day related video showing the USA Founding Fathers’ Mayflower 2 reproduction tall ship, built in the 50’s for a film and now on display to the public. The film includes interviews with the Project Director, various carpenters and some of the actors who now show people round the ship while dressed in period costume.

Nice one, David. Thanks for that.

Sailing the Sorlandet

November 13, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Norwegian sail training ship, Sorlandet; picture a screen grab from You Tube noted by David Rye.

A bit of a treat today with a link found by our friend and occasional contributor, David Rye.

Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6DZIvMZWzQ&feature=youtu.be

This is a video explaining how to sail and manouvre a square rigger. This link is to part 1. The video claims to explain all sorts of manouvres from weighing anchor and getting under way, through tacking, heaving to and finally anchoring under sail but part 1, 11 minutes long manages only to explain the sail plan and get under way. I presume the other parts will cover the rest. It is fascinating stuff mainly for the myriad ropes (sheets, buntlines, braces, halliards etc) and huge amount of people needed to crew the ship. In this case it is the Norwegian sail training ship Sorlandet. Get a look at it, if only for the beauty of the ship and the snippets of info you will be able to drop into conversation if it all goes quiet in the snug tonight. A ‘ship’ for example was a fully square rigged vessel with squaresails on the mizzen, anything less, for example a mere ‘Spanker’ on the mizzen, and you were a ‘barque’. The commentator also sounds worryingly like Rebuild Project Manager, William Collard, to me anyway!

Thanks very much for that, David!